kapelusznik18 ***SPOILERS**** Confusing movie with a totally off the wall plot about what could better be called reincarnation. Not in one getting born after he or she passed away but being inserted or popped into another body via a brain transplant coupled with a blood transfusion! Despite the movie making very little sense it did in fact end up winning a number of awards, in probably putting the most people to sleep while watching it, for it's story and cinematography from the little known Cineygma Luxemburginx Film Festival. It also bombed out at the box office making back a scanty $50,000.00 of the more then $10,000.000.00 it cost to produced this half-baked turkey.There's the star of the film a notorious quack doctor using hypnotherapy on his unsuspecting patients Michael Strother played by Goran Visnjic, the most famous Croatian American since New York Yankeee home run king Roger Maris, who freaked out back in the USA when he tried to cure a patient of his fear of water. That by Strother putting him under hypnosis and encouraging him to jump into a lake in early April while it was still covered with ice. The poor guy ended up catching pneumonia and drowning by following Strother's insane and dangerous advice! Now in London under an assumed name, the same Michael Strother, he's involved in curing people of smoking and taking only cash not checks or IOU's, so no one can check on him, to pay his bills or living expenses. It all starts when Strother cures London police officer Janet Losey, Shirley Henderson, of her addiction to tobacco. While putting Janet under hypnosis he uncovers the reason why this young girl Heather, Sophie Stuckey, a recent kidnapped victim was so traumatized by her experience that she ended up losing her voice! With Losey, using the threat of exposing him as a quack, has Strother put Heather under hypnosis and, what do you know, ends up getting her voice back!From there on the movie quickly goes down hill with this cock & bull scenario about some people in London involved in a string of kidnapping and ritual murders of children to provide them with new lives, how it's done is never really explained, by somehow using the kidnapped and blood drained bodies of adults as their new bodies or identities. Strother who at first thought this is all ridicules soon become convinced it's really real as he delves deeper and deeper into the subject matter. This almost has him become the next person who's body, after being drain of all its blood, is to be taken over by the head of this kidnap and murder gang Catherine Leboug, Flowa Shaw, who looks like, in being almost 100 years old, she's on her death bed already!****SPOILERS**** We also find out later in the movie that the elderly Mrs. Leboug is actually the daughter of another member of the gang Francis Paladine, John Rogan, who's in fact young enough to be her great-great grandson! There's really nothing more to write about "Close your Eyes" since it gets more confusing as it goes on to it's final reward. That's where we see that Strother's new born son who together with his mom Clara, Miranda Otto, is at a carnival enjoying himself now being put under a spell by Heather to have the evil bloodline of the devil worshiping Paladine cult allowed to continue.

Jan Strydom CLOSE YOUR EYES (a.k.a DOCTOR SLEEP) is a taut and intelligently crafted thriller that keeps you glued to the screen as soon as it gets started, I'm not going to sum up the plot, I'd rather just tell you go get the film, take it home, pop it into your player and press the play button, then let the film take you on a real psychological trip.What I will do is tell you that the cast does a great job with their performances, the script is highly intelligently written and the direction is rock solid, if you're still having doubts about whether or not you want to see this film, I can't say anything that'll be encouraging, the comments I've posted on IMDb have been helpful to some and not so helpful to others, so what can I say to you that will get you to see this film besides that its a good movie? Just go and get this movie it is that good.

Ina_no_name I have never heard of this movie until it came on the TV one night and when I heard it was a thriller, I decided to sit up and watch it since I love thrillers. And English thrillers are the best, even a better reason to sit up. The story is creepy. A girl won't talk anymore after been through something traumatic and her mother is trying desperately to get her to talk about what happened. A hypnotyzer get contacted by an investigator that wants him to try to make that girl to talk. It's not easy but somehow he finally get to communicate with her. Together they are trying to get through the case and clear everything up. But they have to be careful, 'cause they don't know who they are dealing with.

Lucien Lessard A hypnotherapy's (Goran Visnjic) is been asked by a Scotland Yard Detective (Shirley Henderson) to help her solve a troubling case involving a Serial Killer and a little girl (Sophie Stuckey), who's been traumatized since she was captive by the Serial Killer.Directed by Nick Willing made a strong, unique thriller mixing elements with the occult, a whodunit and a horror film. Visnjic is excellent in the film. The movie also stars:Miranda Otto from "The Lord of the Rings" series. Close your Eyes is a instant cult film with one of a kind premise. Based on a Novel by Madison Smartt Bell, which her novel is titled"Doctor Sleep". Which Bell also appears in a cameo in the opening scene. This film is also known as "Doctor Sleep" and "Hypnotic" outside the U.S. Never receive theatrically in the U.S. Super 35. (****/*****).